"The very first step in understanding what this is all about is giving up the concept of an active, volitional 'I' as a separate entity and accepting the passive role of perceiving and functioning as a process." - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Monday, June 4, 2012

Ashtavakra Gita

Janaka said:
  • The wise person of self-knowledge, playing the game of worldly enjoyment, bears no resemblance whatever to samsara's bewildered beasts of burden.
  • Truly the yogi feels no excitement even at being established in that state which all the Devas from Indra down yearn for disconsolately.
  • He who has known That is untouched within by good deeds or bad, just as the sky is not touched by smoke, however much it may appear to be.
  • Who can prevent the great-souled person who has known this whole world as himself from living as he pleases?
  • Of all four categories of being, from Brahma down to the last clump of grass, only the man of knowledge is capable of eliminating desire and aversion.
  • Rare is the man who knows himself as the undivided Lord of the world, and he who knows this is not afraid of anything.

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That in whom reside all beings and who resides in all beings,
who is the giver of grace to all, the Supreme Soul of the universe, the limitless being:
I AM THAT. -- Amritabindu Upanishad